Posted on 03/16/2022 5:30:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Oakland Athletics are purging top players, trading Chris Bassitt and Matt Olson. It should be the last straw for the team’s few remaining fans.
A’s fans deserve better.
But sadly, any fans who have stuck around know the drill by now.
The A’s are tearing it all down, again. This weekend, All-Star starting pitcher Chris Bassitt was traded to the Mets. Monday, Matt Olson, a legitimate MVP candidate, was sent to the Braves.
More will come in the days and weeks to come. Matt Chapman, Sean Manaea, Frankie Montas — anyone wearing green and yellow and anywhere near arbitration is on the market.
And while you could make the argument that the A’s have done well in the deals they have already made, that misses the point.
This batch of A’s was supposed to be the core of a competitive team. It was a competitive team up until last season.
But instead of augmenting around them while they were inexpensive, instead of signing good players to contract extensions before they hit free agency, the A’s blew it all up again, well before this core’s time was up.
Predictable? Of course.
But sports are an escape from everyday life. They need to sell hope — the idea that things will be great this year, or, at the worst, that they’ll be better soon.
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Many years ago I got into the Braves big time. Watched all their games, got to know the players, I mean I was seriously into it for 2-3 years. I didn’t keep up with trades and off season stuff, though. Then at the beginning of a season all of sudden half of the players I had been cheering for were on the other teams. It just destroyed my interest pretty much immediately.
As long as they kept Vida Blue.
Al Campanis (GM of the Dodgers in the ‘60’s) once said:
‘Better to trade someone a year too early than a day too late”
They’re following the Nutting model from the Pirates.
The Cincinnati Reds say “hold our beer!”
C’mon the Reds manager David Bell says: ‘We’re getting better in a really weird way’. The players traded are happy to leave. I almost feel sorry for Votto.
The weird thing is the A’s players aren’t happy to leave for the most part. Yoenis Cespedes was really upset to leave, he wanted to stay there his whole career, even knowing they were cheapskates. Olson and Chapman didn’t want to leave.
Hmmm. I thought Bill Walsh said that in football.
Billy Ball
LOL!!
Who the hell would want to live in Oakland?
"Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late." -- Branch Rickey (Brooklyn Dodgers GM)
It's a good line so Walsh may well have used it as well
A lot of very rich people Oakland has some of the richest neighborhoods in the country.
Although, really, you could live anywhere in the Bay Area.
Khalil Mack had a mansion in San Ramon, which is really nice.
Piedmont, Claremont, Crocker Highland, Upper Rockridge, etc., some of the most expensive neighborhoods in the coutry.
But who the hell "wants" to live in Calif.?
I have no idea who the hell Khalil Mack is....and don’t care.
Well, sadly, that’s because of our terrible leadership. The Bay Area is a wonderful place. But we have a crew trying t wreck it.
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